"Please forgive me, Your Majesty. I can only tell you. This is my secret. Therefore, I am sorry that I cannot tell Your Majesty."
Lin Xiao shook his head and expressed that he was unwilling to reveal his secret to others.
Li Yujun did not force it, he nodded and said:
"In this case, I won't force it, but where can I buy the salt you made? After all, after tasting the ingredients seasoned with it, I have fallen in love with these salts, so I hope you can sell them to
I’ll give you some!”
"It's easy to tell. The salt made by this boy is sold in Jin Sanniang's grain and oil store. The price is affordable. If the prince is interested, you can go and have a look."
It would be too pretentious not to bring out Jin Sanniang’s grain and oil store when the atmosphere is here.
“Jin Sanniang’s grain and oil store?”
Li Yujun's eyes suddenly lit up:
"Boy, please take this king to have a look!"
"yes!"
Lin Xiao walked with a relaxed pace and took Li Yujun to Jin Sanniang's grain and oil store.
Jin Sanniang saw a large group of people walking in and hurriedly greeted them.
She saw Li Yuqian, who was extremely well-dressed, and then looked at Lin Xiao and Yu Xilin with smiles on their faces, and her eyes suddenly lit up.
The person coming here must be a very important person!
"Sister, this is the prince, why don't you come over quickly to pay your respects!"
Lin Xiao winked at Jin Sanniang and said.
"Oh, oh, the little girl Jin Sanniang has met the prince!"
Jin Sanniang reacted immediately and bowed humbly to Li Yujun.
"Well, get up!"
Li Yujun waved to her:
"I heard you have this kind of salt here?"
Li Yujun waved the bamboo tube Lin Xiao gave him in front of Jin Sanniang.
When Jin Sanniang saw it, her eyes immediately lit up and she quickly responded:
"Yes, yes, this salt is indeed sold in the little lady's shop."
"Take me and have a look!"
"Yes, please come here, Your Majesty."
Jin Sanniang quickly led everyone to a warehouse behind the grain and oil store.
The same bamboo tubes as those in Li Yujun's hands were placed on the upper and lower shelves in the warehouse.
They are densely packed, countless, and extremely numerous, which looks very spectacular.
"so much?!"
When Li Yujun saw these bamboo tubes, he couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
"Your Majesty, there are fifteen hundred kilograms of salt here."
Jin Sanniang introduced with a smile.
"so much?"
Li Yujun's voice was trembling.
With so much high-quality table salt, it must be quite expensive.
If one tael of silver is worth one catty, there must be a full one thousand five hundred taels here!
This amount of money is considered a large amount of money for Li Yujun, a relative of the emperor!
His situation is actually the same as that of most aristocratic families. Most of the expenses are spent on the servants, guards, and slaves hired by the family.
The combined salary for a year is only enough to support him and the hundreds of people in the house.
It's not that he hasn't thought about reducing his staff, but doing so will inevitably cause unnecessary trouble.
After all, everyone in the capital knows that he is Prince Li Yujun.
His every move is watched and monitored, and all his actions are reported to the major families and the Holy One.
Once there is any abnormality in him, it is very likely that someone will catch his pigtails and be killed!
"I wonder how much salt the prince wants?"
Jin Sanniang asked with a sweet smile.
"How can I sell this salt?"
Li Yujun asked hesitantly.
He thought to himself that if it cost one tael of silver per pound, he could afford it.
"These bamboo tubes contain salt that ordinary people need. The prince is a high-ranking official and should enjoy higher-grade refined salt."
With that said, Jin Sanniang took Li Yujun to a corner of the warehouse, which was filled with exquisite porcelain jars.
"These are the higher-grade salts in your mouth?"
Li Yujun's eyes widened in disbelief.
The salt that ordinary people eat is delicious enough, but I didn’t expect that there is something even more delicious!
"Yes, exactly these."
Jin Sanniang smiled and said:
"These are three hundred copper coins per pound."
"What?!"
Li Yujun asked with a look of disbelief.
This price is simply too...
Cheaper!
The special royal salt they used to eat cost one tael of silver per catty, and was bitter and astringent, not as good as the one here!
Jin Sanniang seemed to have expected this kind of reaction from Li Yujun. She explained:
"These prices were set by my brother Lin. He hopes that salt will no longer become a luxury product, but a necessity that everyone can afford."
"I see!"
Li Yujun suddenly realized it, and then he raised his head and looked at Lin Xiaodao with approval:
"Boy, I wonder if you are willing to come to my palace as a guest? I feel like I feel like old friends with you at first sight, and I want to talk to you all night long!"
"The boy is very willing!"
She had already rejected Li Yujun once and could not refuse him a second time.
Otherwise it would be rude.
Furthermore, if Li Yujun is angered by this, she won’t be able to chop her head off even if her body is covered with hair!
"Hahaha, okay, okay, let's go!"
When Li Yujun heard that Lin Xiao agreed to him, he couldn't help laughing, and then led Lin Xiao outside.
"Your Majesty, salt... do you want more?"
Jin Sanniang quickly followed behind Li Yujun and asked, fearing that he would forget.
"Of course! Send someone to deliver ten kilograms of refined salt to the palace, and just ask the butler to settle the bill."
Li Yujun ordered without looking back.
We sold ten kilograms of salt right after the store opened, and the prince himself came to buy it. It was really awesome, Jin Sanniang thought to herself.
"yes!"
She immediately sent someone to deliver ten kilograms of refined salt to the palace. During the delivery process, she also followed Lin Xiao's instructions and played and played. It was so lively!
When people passing by saw this scene, they all speculated about what the prince had purchased in Jin Sanniang's grain and oil store, and why there was such a big battle.
At this time, Mazi and others, who played the role of passers-by, told the story of what happened in Chen's Tavern with added details.
"What?! The second young master of Chen's Tavern actually lost to a country bumpkin in a cooking competition?!"
"How is this possible?! That boy is the second young master of Chen's Tavern, and he actually lost?!"
"That's not the point. The point is that the country bumpkin was able to defeat the second young master!"
"It's simply unbelievable. Who is this country bumpkin?"
Seeing that the curiosity of passers-by was aroused, Han Xier hurriedly pretended to be a stranger and asked Mazi:
"If you lose the cooking competition, you lose. What does this have to do with the prince going to Jin Sanniang's grain and oil store?"
Han Xi'er said, pretending to be confused and looked around.
Passers-by also stopped talking and turned their attention to Mazi.
"Yes, what does the cooking competition have to do with Jin Sanniang's grain and oil store?"
"What did the prince buy in the store?"
"Tell us quickly and stop being so pretentious!"
…
"Of course it does matter!"
Mazi pretended to be mysterious and said:
"Don't you know why that country bumpkin won? Wasn't he using the secret weapon Jin Sanniang gave him?"